The goal is to develop artificial whisker arrays for engineering applications. Mitra J. Hartmann, assistant professor of biomedical and mechanical engineering, and Joseph H. Solomon, a graduate ...

Upon discovering the morphology of the harbor seal’s whisker under a microscope, marine biologists were very excited to postulate its role in the seal’s excellent hunting abilities. Like many mammals, ...

Among the many reasons humans are bizarre among mammals (the dearth of body hair, the bipedalism, the fact that someone invented the turducken) is a sad shortcoming: You and I don’t have sensory ...

Inventors, designers and engineers are constantly cribbing from Mother Nature, building new-school robots inspired by old-school biology. Let’s take a look at some of the latest, greatest, and ...